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Hehe u guys are angry that people steal torrents from here, if u had own the releases it would been ok... but hey, all thing here are stolen from the begining.
The upploaders here are getting credits from the work of people in holywood and from music artists and so on.

What's the difference?

and...

Hmmm, I don't understand this. Isn't this what p2p is all about? Sharing? If someone wanted to share what he got here to another site, why not? The releases aren't from *** as far as I know, it's from the groups that released them. In my opinion this should only be a problem if someone gets here and doesn't seed (therefore hit and running) only to upload somewhere else. Now that's wrong. Don't you agree?

And about the credits you spend to upload here, I thought you did it because you wanted to share?

Yeah I don't quite get that either. Where do the Scene uploaders get the files? The fact is they show up everywhere eventually, so isn't the p2p scene all about sharing? That's the thing you always find in every p2p scene, whether it be bittorrent, or on irc filesharing channel... every group does not care about any other group. They're all cut off, and don't allow sharing with outside groups.

*** only allows their own encoded files to be shared, and ban you for even mentioning another group.

It's ridiculous if you ask me. On one hand, if all the groups shared together, the scene would be more powerful, but on the other hand, the scene would be easier to shut down, and you'd never really know what's coming in or out. Everything would be mislabeled, and mispackaged, though honestly rar files don't belong on bittorrent, only on newsgroups where the filesize restrictions make them necessary. But I digress.

The Scene rule that you cannot share a file gotten from here anywhere else doesn't exactly make sense since there's no way to trace the file back here, so there's no actual security breach.

I have a tracker, and I only upload my own homemade stuff there so it's not relavent in my case, but for those who say get an episode of something here and want to upload it someplace else, like tvtorrents.com because they can share with their friend's community who aren't a member here yet, a show several hours early? I don't see why that would be a problem, do you?

I really don't see that as disrespecting an uploader. The uploader cannot be disrespected. And let's be honest, the only people being disrespected are the artists we're all stealing from , right?

So what is filesharing if there is only sharing within the microcosm? Elitism?

The fact is they make the rules and the members live by them. One cannot help but wonder if the p2p groups are not making the same mistake the networks are:

Which is, holding tightly to control that at it's core cannot be regulated. It's like sand slipping through your fingers.

Eventually, the networks will understand that distribution is out of their hands and in the hands of the public, and the sooner they accept this, the sooner they'll hop on the hyperdistribution bandwagon and they'll realize there's a huge untapped market right under their noses, and it's the direction media is headed.

Face it, television has escaped from the box.

P2p groups need to come to their own realizations and understand that one scene cannot control distribution any more then a network can keep tv in a square box, neither can they keep it within 4 imaginary walls of a website.

Once the networks catch up with the direction digital media is headed, things are going to change, and in a big way.

This morning I tried to change my hotmail password because my old one wasn't working.
But first I had to remember which email address I set
as my alternate in order to get the link to change my hotmail password.

When i got there finally to change my password, I type in
what I want my new password to be and get this error:

The new password must be different from the old password.

Cosmic Futility once again assuring me of who is really in charge around here.

Apparently my life is ruled by stupidity which is the neverending
messenger boy of Cosmic Futility, incidentally both roomates of Sysyphys.

Yes, the story of my life is writ with cosmic futillity's own pen.

One day, or was it night? Was it anything at all really? But I digress. God was tinkering in his workshop when the power went out... he cursed, he yelled... "Let there be light!!!", but God did not know his own strength and whoa was there light, and God looked and pondered, "hmm... now I suppose I better create some life to go with this new firmament", and such is how life, the universe and everything came into being.

Accident or masterpiece? Some say the masters have created masterpieces of art come about by accidental brushstrokes. Some say there are no accidents at all... What do you believe?

Some of the world's greatest masters of horror cinema have come together to create a new tv series, called appropriately, Masters of Horror.

Miike and Argento, Carpenter and Conscarelli, Gordon and Hooper, and more.

So far I have seen the first four episodes of MOH, and I tell you it gets better with every episode.

Episode 1: Incident On and Off a Mountain Road Score: 2/5

I was rather disappointed by this episode. Sort of a Jeepers Creepers meets Nightmare on Elm Street. A young naive girl falls in love with the wrong man, whose intensified paranoia and training becomes not only that which saves her life, but his demise.

Episode 2: Dreams in the Witch House Score: 3/5

Tripped out story that had potential having been written by H.P. Lovecraft but seemed to lose something at crucial points in the execution.

Episode 3: Dance of the Dead Score: 2/5

Rather silly and badly scripted.

Episode 4: JENNIFER Score: 4/5

One thing I really liked about the Jennifer episode is she had no idea what she was doing was wrong. She would do these things to please her man, and when she thought he was happy she would squeal with delight and clap her hands, and make this face that was almost adorable.

I think that showed a certain amount of depth to the story which was lacking from the others, so for that I found Jennifer one of the better stories in Master of Horror thus far.

Episode 5: Chocolate Score: 2.5/5

Chocolate is a pensive tale, written in the style of erotic horror science fiction folklore.

Henry Thomas becomes to develop uncontrolled remote viewing of a mysterious woman
who murders her lover somewhere in Montreal Canada.

Henry goes to investigate, driven by his odd sense of love for this woman
who he has been voyeuristically experiencing in and out of dreams.

Of all the 5 stories so far this one has the best acting and story development
of any of the others. Has Henry found his soulmate? There are those
who believe soulmates can see each other no matter how far apart they are
just by thinking of them.

I was able to do this with a girl I felt was my soulmate years ago, Eileen,
so it's not that farfetched at all.

The only rather ridiculous thing about this story is the question.
The question of why he had a connection with her at all.

The story could have been great but it seemed like the writer
ran out of time so closed the tale in a very mediocre and
story breaking fashion that ended up hurting everything the tale
had been built on.

The final scene was just stupid in every way.

Effectually the hand was so fake. Plotwise, it made no sense why he had the connection
if it was going to turn out this way.
It felt like a story of cheap sex and the pointless of the ending just for unhappy ending's sake.

Too often horror writers get egotistical in thinking a unhappy ending is cooler
then a happy one that they destroy the entire point of the story
just to seem cool, but that to me is not being true to the story.

Until the ending though it was decent, but the ending really was poor.

Which is why this story scores [b]2.5/5[/b] from me.


So, for now I am hopeful the series will get better as time goes along, but for now some of the episode feel rather lazy, but hey what can you do? Writing short stories that are brilliant are difficult. Making it all come together elloquently on film for a 30 minute television show? Even harder! I am still hopeful for Miike's episode coming soon, and supposedly King and Koontz are signed on for season 2, so that should be alot of fun!

I'm Kupo and I approve of this message.

I think God should be a political position so we can vote in a new God if things arent going the way we like on a global scale with natural disasters andstuf... i mean think about it theres been tons of hurricanes, thats not good for God..

so lets nominate a new God who can promise us no new Hurricanes...

1. AS YOUR GOD I VOW TO CURE ONE NEW TERMINAL DISEASE FOR EVERY CENTURY IM IN OFFICE

2. As your God I promise to make cats goto school to learn how to use can openers, and dogs will goto school to learn how to use a loofah

3. As God I will solve the energy crisis as we begin to use pure imagination to run all our machinery.

4. First 1,000,000,000 voters gets a free non stick spatula

5. As God I will let you drag and drop information right off your computer screen onto blank paper without the need for pens and printers and such

6. As God I will dedicate a national holiday to the grilled cheese sandwich

7. As God there will be no more gun control, but plenty of bullet control, headed up by Chris Rock. My cabinet will be run by the funniest comedians in the world.

8. As your God there will be no separation between church and state because there will be no state and no church.. All organized religion will be destroyed and all boundaries of heirarchy laid waste.

9. As your God Pluto will be promoted back to planethood status because well, the lil fella earned it

10. Female breasts can detach from the female form and deliver milk to other babies thru new jetpack breast propulsion.

11. As God I will give Jerusalem back to it's rightful owners... the dolphins.

12. As God all women will be known as goddesses, and all men shall be gods.

13. As God all prayers shall be answered in 30 minutes or less, or your next prayer is karma free.

14. As God if a woman has sex and is about to conceive she can tell the tiny spirit she doesnt wish to get pregnant right now so no abortions.

15. As God I will make all people impervious to physical damage, and of course you can all now fly.

That should keep you all busy for my first mllenium in office. So, vote me for God! A Vote for Kupo is a vote for a new era of prosperity and progress for lifekind!

If only Douglas Adams were alive today to tell us, and would we like the answer?

According to some online sources, Douglas Adams simply came up with the answer to
the ultimate question, out of the blue on a whim, stating allegedly:


The answer to this is very simple. It was a joke. It had to be a number, an
ordinary, smallish number, and I chose that one. Binary representations,
base thirteen, Tibetan monks are all complete nonsense. I sat at my desk,
stared into the garden and thought '42 will do' I typed it out. End of story.

Best,

Douglas Adams
London, UK | d...@dadams.demon.co.uk (dormant)
Currently in Santa Fe, NM | ada...@nic.cerf.net (current)


Not very satisfying is it? What's the proof that this is
really Douglas Adams post from 1993 and not an imposter?
Afterall, it doesn't really ring true does it?
It doesn't afterall sound like Douglas Adams,
whose writing has always been rather methodical and creative,
and not some sublimation to the cosmos or Tibetan garden what have you.

At least not so in his writings.

Especially when I remember quite well, reading 15 or so years ago,
that the method by which the number 42 was attained was by a simple
mathematical equation (seen below):

life (4 letters), the universe ( X 8 letters) and everything (+ 10 letters) 4x8+10=42

To truly get to the bottom of this mystery, I must dig deeper.
So I joined the Google group for Douglas Adams to make my inquiry...


To be continued...

Sadly I'm really not liking the direction this show it taking.
A few episodes it seemed they were going someplace,
but now the relationship between president and first gentleman
is starting to really irk me something fierce.

He now answers to her directly, what does that mean?
CIC is turning out to be a 90210 with a west wing slant.

I'd much rather have The West Wing, but I felt letdown
by the live episode. I felt it tried too hard and missed the mark.
I suppose hype is nearly impossible to live up to, right?

I love the idea of a female president, but while other countries
live this in real life, we have a tv show... it feels cheap, and
every time I watch the show I'm reminded of this incontrovertible
mote of ethics.

I haven't given up on the show completely, but if things keep up
this way, I will.

One more Thing:

The president fires Vince, special assistant to the president
because he is HIV positive, and will now be big news
and they are trying to fly the presidency under the radar?
What does that say to our society? To our businesses, or communities? Oh sorry, she didn't
fire him, she forced his resignation. That wasn't honorable.

She says it wasn't discriminatory but it was discriminatory,
and will be seen as such. Thankfully she in the end does not accept
the resignation - if she did I would never watch the show again.

I know from experience never to buy a new operating system until it's been out close to a year because we all know every version of Windows has nearly decimated the enduser with crippling bugs in the first months of release, which have required many many patches, and I for one have always been one to wait for the fallout to clear when approaching Microsoft products. It has never failed me yet.

Vista on the other hand has such new hardware demands that even for those who normally wait 6 months to a year to upgrade their operating system there are even bigger concerns: paying out $500 or more just to use the operating system on top of the cost of the CD.

And with many users finding their way to Linux, I have not seen a stampede of users towards Vista in my community, but rather a even less enthusiasm then existed for XP and that was primarily due to Windows Millenium being in most people's opinions I've asked, "The worst operating system ever designed by Microsoft".

I find XP works fine but is fragile so am interested in upgrading, but not if I have to buy all new hardware to do it. For me I will upgrade hardware eventually, and when that day comes, perhaps then I will consider Vista viable after that, but not as the incentive to upgrade.

That's my 2 cents,

-Kupotek
Kitty Safe Network
http://www.kittysafe.net

I found it funny that I seemed to be the only person I know talking about the miracle of Pink Floyd reuiniting after 20 years for Live 8, but that's besides the point... which is Roger Waters of Pink Floyd in the December issue of Playboy talking about Live 8, and he says something pretty funny about Coldplay. Anyways, I'll let you check it out!


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